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learn more this video ended up being less about the plexor m6 SSD
specifically and more to do with what it represents in general finally a move
away from the longtime bottleneck that is the SATA interface and towards PCI
Express for system storage but with a bit of a Twist this time unlike previous
cludy Solutions like the ocz revo Drive which used a RAID controller as a
middleman between the PCI Express controller on your CPU or motherboard
and the SATA controllers on multiple drives that were soldered onto a PCB
something that caused long boot times no support for the trim command and poor
compatibility aside from being something you could set up just as easily yourself
this new approach uses native PCI Express all the way through to the
controller on your Drive elegant ehy
well okay so this product doesn't look particularly elegant but don't worry
this PCI Express card that the daughter board sits on is basically nothing more
than a dumb interconnect between your PCI Express slot and the m.2 interface
SSD that's sitting on it here electrically it's just a straight pass
through so Elegance isn't always about looks am I right before we get into the
M60 specifically though it's probable that you've never actually seen an m.2
drive before so let's do aqu WTF is that session here this interface
on this motherboard here might look pretty much like an Neta or mini PCI
Express lot but it's actually much more badass than that it gives whatever is
plugged into it access to up to four PCIe gen 3 Lanes a seta 36 gbit port and
even USB the card side of the interface is designed from the ground up for the
best possible ratio of features to physical space making it a great way to
get desktop performance on Ultrabooks and other small thin and light devices
cards can be designed in a number of length and widths with most of them 22
mm wide just wide enough for a flash chip and they can tap into whatever
combination of connectivity they need including PCI Express SATA and SATA
Express which is basically ahci commands over a PCI Express Bus using the new 3.2
standard you'll be able to tell what your card needs by the keying on the
bottom of the connector which leads us pretty well into the m6e it uses two PCI
Express Gen 2 lanes for a theoretical Max throughput of 1,000 megabytes per
second or about 60% more than SATA 36 gbit it's 80 mm long and 22 mm wide with
eight of toshiba's 19 NM toggle Nan flash chips and a Marvel 9183 native PCI
Express controller that uses ahci commands instead of NVMe to offer
improved compatibility and driverless operation at the cost of some
performance particularly in random workloads now while plex's product page
laughably declares it to be the first SSD optimized for gamers the speed of
this drive with their custom firmware is pretty impressive the 256 gig model that
we have here can handle sequential right speeds of around
580 megabytes per second and sequential reads of around 770 megabytes per second
well over the maximum of SATA 3 with random reads and wres both rated at
around 100,00 000 iops now beyond that
plexer does include some extra Technologies including native UEFI boot
support for faster drivve initialization and boot times on ufi motherboards as
well as their usual true speed garbage collection algorithm that helps it
maintain its performance over time and a 5-year warranty to go along with the
claims about you know outstanding reliability that they make now speaking
of those claims plexer takes an interesting approach here while another
manufacturer a very reputable one I might add asked me not to talk about
their use of flex R SSD testing Chambers plexer wears this right on their sleeve
and calls out their driver liability testing standards right on the product
page and it's for this reason that the lusch tips.com Forum uses a plexor SSD
as its boot drive there are only a handful of SSD makers that I would trust
in such a deployment so there you have it while the m6c is very expensive
features a Frankenstein like implementation and and in the real world
due to Microsoft's poor native Windows 8 ahci driver and some other early adopter
struggles doesn't really perform better than a normal SSD it is the first Native
PCI Express SSD I've had the pleasure of laying my hands on and I'm excited for
the future of this new technology
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